Lebanon protested yesterday to the UN Security Council over an Israeli air raid near Beirut, the first in four years, which the Jewish state said was a warning to Lebanon and patron Syria against cross-border attacks.
As Israeli officials warned of dire consequences if Lebanon is used as a "springboard" for further attacks, Beirut filed a letter of complaint with the Security Council.
On Monday night, Israeli jets bombed suspected positions of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command (PFLP-GC) in Naameh, 20km south of the Lebanese capital.
The raid, which the PFLP-GC said inflicted no casualties, was in response to an earlier attack that has not been claimed by any group and that Israel said had targeted a naval vessel patrolling in Israeli territorial waters.
The raid on Naameh was the first air strike so close to Beirut since the Israeli troop pullout from southern Lebanon in May 2000.
A top PFLP-GC official, Abu Rushdi, denied yesterday the group had any link with the missile attack.
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